Unifor Won’t Be Giving Ford Concessions During Contract Talks

[Oac98]

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[Sherminator98]

Just now, Oac98 said:

 

What do they mean with the short work week? You'll work a compressed schedule and have an additional day off during the pay period?

 

[Oac98]

[Oac98]

[Oac98]

Waiting for meeting to start 

[Oac98]

6 minutes ago, Sherminator98 said:

 

What do they mean with the short work week? You'll work a compressed schedule and have an additional day off during the pay period?

 

The gains for short work week are for people with lower seniority eligibility starts now at 1 year seniority instead of 3 years. When they stop the shift early we get short work week. It’s a percentage of our pay. So it’s we work day 5.5 hours we will get 2.5 hours short work week at a lower pay rate to fill out the 8 hours. It gots up to 40 hours max.  If we go to work for one day and then they send us home for the week we get short work week up to 40 hours. I hope I’m making some sense here.

[Sherminator98]

16 minutes ago, Oac98 said:

The gains for short work week are for people with lower seniority eligibility starts now at 1 year seniority instead of 3 years. When they stop the shift early we get short work week. It’s a percentage of our pay. So it’s we work day 5.5 hours we will get 2.5 hours short work week at a lower pay rate to fill out the 8 hours. It gots up to 40 hours max.  If we go to work for one day and then they send us home for the week we get short work week up to 40 hours. I hope I’m making some sense here.

 

Yes I understand what your saying-its covering hours that should have been worked, but weren't because of shortages, etc

 

[Harley Lover]

Oac98, is it too early to have a sense of the union's sentiment to the details of the offer? The offer as you've shared it seems incredibly fair to me, but I'm an outsider that doesn't know the specific concerns of the membership.

[fuzzymoomoo]

5 hours ago, Sherminator98 said:

 

What do they mean with the short work week? You'll work a compressed schedule and have an additional day off during the pay period?

 

No. What it means is if your hourly check is less than your regularly scheduled hours, ford makes up the difference up to a certain amount. For UAW production makes up the difference up 38 hours, minus any relevant shift premium. I got it a lot during my last summer in production when we were launching the Ranger. I would regularly only work 2 hours a day (10 hours a week) and still get 38 hour checks.  

[fuzzymoomoo]

5 hours ago, Oac98 said:

Investments look nice but not much that wasn’t already previously announced.

 

Otherwise seems like kind of a shit contract. 

[Oac98]

6 hours ago, Harley Lover said:

Oac98, is it too early to have a sense of the union's sentiment to the details of the offer? The offer as you've shared it seems incredibly fair to me, but I'm an outsider that doesn't know the specific concerns of the membership.

Most people are happy with it as they should be. It will pass no problem. There’s always people who can’t be pleased I say F them!

[Oac98]

1 hour ago, fuzzymoomoo said:

Investments look nice but not much that wasn’t already previously announced.

 

Otherwise seems like kind of a shit contract. 

Lol compared to what you guys get maybe but I think it’s good under the current circumstances and political environment. 

[fuzzymoomoo]

2 hours ago, Oac98 said:

Lol compared to what you guys get maybe but I think it’s good under the current circumstances and political environment. 

Your raises barely keep pace with inflation…. 

[Oac98]

4 hours ago, fuzzymoomoo said:

Your raises barely keep pace with inflation…. 

[Oac98]

8 hours ago, Oac98 said:

 

2026_FORD_brochure-final.pdf

[Oac98]

12 hours ago, fuzzymoomoo said:

Your raises barely keep pace with inflation…. 

I think the contract is decent, it’s gonna pass. I sent brochure properly this time. Had issues yesterday sending. 

[Oac98]

Deal ratified 74 percent

[mackinaw]

3 hours ago, Oac98 said:

Deal ratified 74 percent

 

So when are they going to call you back to start building Super Duty's?

[Trader 10]

Interesting to see that Ford is expecting an increase in demand for 5.0 engines by 2029. 

[Oac98]

8 hours ago, mackinaw said:

 

So when are they going to call you back to start building Super Duty's?

I’ve been back since June 1st. Most of the workforce is back although we still have almost 400 people on layoff.  We are currently in PP2 phase of the launch extremely low numbers right now as these are not for sale units. In September we start to ramp up more. The ok to ship is November 2nd so it’s gonna be slow for awhile. Ford wants 55 units an hour when we get going to regular production.

[Oac98]

7 hours ago, Trader 10 said:

Interesting to see that Ford is expecting an increase in demand for 5.0 engines by 2029. 

I find that interesting as well.

[fordmantpw]

10 hours ago, Trader 10 said:

Interesting to see that Ford is expecting an increase in demand for 5.0 engines by 2029. 

 

EREV Super Duty?

[rmc523]

12 hours ago, Trader 10 said:

Interesting to see that Ford is expecting an increase in demand for 5.0 engines by 2029. 

 

Right?  Especially if they're further limiting the 5.0 availability on F-150...

 

2026 Ford F-150 5.0L Coyote V8 Only Offered On Five Trims: Video

 

2 hours ago, fordmantpw said:

 

EREV Super Duty?

 

Could make some sense!

[rmc523]

Unifor Ratifies Collective Agreement With Ford

 

A large majority did indeed vote in favor of this new labor contract - 74 percent of Unifor Ford members covered under the Master Agreement voted yes, while Salaried Bargaining Unit members at Locals 240 and 1324 voted 97 and 100 percent in favor, respectively. As far as the terms of that new contract, members will receive three percent annual wage increases each year it's in effect - between September 2026 and September 2029 - along with a number of other benefits.